Lauchs@lemmy.world to Fake History Porn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA grateful Iraqi uses his shoe to enthusiastically greet President Bush as a liberator (2008)lemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1346arrow-down19
arrow-up1337arrow-down1imageA grateful Iraqi uses his shoe to enthusiastically greet President Bush as a liberator (2008)lemmy.worldLauchs@lemmy.world to Fake History Porn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareLauchs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year ago(Actual photo context: Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, threw his shoe in a sign of extreme disrespect at George yelling “this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident?wprov=sfla1 The greeting as a liberator bit is a callback to Dick Cheney’s infamous “my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”)
(Actual photo context: Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, threw his shoe in a sign of extreme disrespect at George yelling “this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident?wprov=sfla1
The greeting as a liberator bit is a callback to Dick Cheney’s infamous “my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”)